Usmanov is known for making offers people are afraid to refuse. One who did refuse and is no longer around to talk about it, is Leonid Rozhetskin, a millionaire Russian-American, Harvard-trained lawyer, who wouldn’t sell his 25.1 percent share in Megafon, the Russian mobile phone service provider. In fact, Rozhetskin had filed suit in New [...]

Chief lobbyist of the MPAA, Chris Dodd, also lashed out at the blackout yesterday, saying it was a “gimmick,” and even “dangerous.” Dodd, whose industry outspent the tech sector 13-1 in Congress, oddly called the political protest “an abuse of power.” – After Historic Protest, Members of Congress Abandon PIPA and SOPA in Droves at [...]

[via Wired] “Preservation of human life is a premium when one is attempting to generate support of the local population, stability and security while not increasing grievances.” – Dr. Mark Maybury . . . Maybury even lists “Metropolitan Area Persistent Sensing” — city-wide spying — as well as “micro munitions that limit collateral damage” and [...]

People like Dimon, and Schwarzman, and John Paulson, and all of the rest of them who think the “imbeciles” on the streets are simply full of reasonless class anger, they don’t get it. Nobody hates them for being successful. And not that this needs repeating, but nobody even minds that they are rich. What makes [...]

[Incarceration in the United States] As incarceration rates skyrocket, the private prison industry expands at exponential rates, holding ever more people in its prisons and jails, and generating massive profits. Private prisons for adults were virtually non-existent until the early 1980s, but the number of prisoners in private prisons increased by approximately 1600% between 1990 [...]

I Want You To visit our kiosk at the mall, kill foreign nationals in their homes to protect your country, and die in a godforsaken ditch so I can photoshop your face onto someone else’s body, cremate what’s left of you at a pet cemetery, and dump your ashes in a landfill. Whoever said patriotism [...]

[I]f too many depositors leave, the illusion that the big banks are serving the American public will be burst, and a critical mass of consciousness will occur, so that the banks’ unquestioned control over the American political and financial systems will start to be questioned. – Big Banks Plead with Customers Not to Move Their [...]

Today more than 20,000 television and radio broadcast stations across the country will participate in the first-ever, nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS). The test will last approximately 30 seconds and will look and sound very similar to local tests of the Emergency Alert System that occur frequently. Can you imagine a situation [...]

- Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. Electronic Frontier Foundation launched an FOIA lawsuit a week ago – the outcome will be telling for the future of the United States’ many citizen-suspects. Did you mean “If the American people find out” ..?

Millions of Americans have been told by the corporate media, ever since the 1980s, that nobody but a handful of dirty hippies, and evil Satanic commies, and lazy welfare bums, and illegal immigrants, and of course more recently al Qaeda, but other than those people, nobody else but you has a problem with winner-take-all lasseiz [...]